How many times have you adapted a favorite recipe to make it meatless? For vegetarians, this is a common practice. I adapted these spicy vegetarian chipotle quinoa sliders from my chipolte fish sliders recipe.
I identify as a pescatarian. In other words, a vegetarian who still eats fish. I post 90% vegetarian recipes, therefore, I attract more meatless-eaters with my recipes than fish-eaters. Continue reading
This fresh-from-the-garden cucumber dill quinoa salad with chickpeas is light and refreshing, but also filling. The chickpeas and quinoa and loaded with protein to help sustain you all day long.
I love a simple red wine vinaigrette on most of my salads. They are so easy to make and add huge amounts of flavor. Quinoa will soak up the dressing, so if you are making a large batch and plan to have leftovers (say, work lunches), store the dressing separately. Continue reading
Posted in Gluten Free Dishes, Grains, Quick and Easy, Salad, Vegan, Vegetarian Main Dish
For me, veggie burgers don’t necessarily need to taste like a burger. Instead, they can be a delivery system for fun flavors. Like these Jamacian Jerk Plantain Burgers, or these Moroccan Carrot Veggie Burgers, or today’s recipe for vegetarian quinoa pizza burgers.
I think one of the best ways to get great flavor in something like a veggie burger is to load it up with different seasonings. Make it complicated for your taste buds to figure everything out, and you will likely enjoy the flavors more. Continue reading
Posted in Burger, Grains, Vegetarian Main Dish
Tagged Beans, Cheese, Eggs, Garlic, Marinara, quinoa, Vegetarian
Hands in the air if you love lasagna! Me too. But do you ever have leftover sheets of lasagna noodles? My box always seems to have just a few more than I really need for a recipe. I created this arugula pesto lasagna roll ups recipes to use up those extra noodles!
I made this recipe with 5 lasagna noodles, because that’s how many I had to use. It just so happens that I could not have fit more into a 9×9 inch pan as well. Feel free to increase the recipe and make more roll ups, just plan on using a bigger pan. Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Pasta, Vegetarian Main Dish
Tagged Arugula, Cheese, Garlic, Nuts, Vegetarian
A few months ago, I developed an easy homemade mole sauce recipe. Most of the time I think of meat based dishes when I think of mole sauce. Therefore, I have been playing with the sauce finding good vegetarian uses, like these mole black bean tostadas with slaw!
If you missed it, the first mole sauce recipe I posted was the mole jackfruit street tacos. This recipe is moist and delicious, but I thought it was lacking protein. Therefore, I started working with mole and black beans. Continue reading
Posted in Gluten Free Dishes, Mexican, Vegetarian Main Dish
Tagged Cabbage, Cheese, Cilantro, Garlic, Quick and Easy, Tomatoes, Tortillas, Vegetarian
After the photo shoot for this kimchi fried rice with peas and cabbage was finished, I started nomming like normal. Then, I realized I forgot to photograph piercing the egg (a classic sunny side up egg shot). I looked down at my bowl, and thought, 3/4 gone is actually a pretty good shot to see what it really looks like.
Did I go back to the studio and capture it? No. It was too good to stop eating! It was everything I could do to savory every bite instead of inhaling it in two seconds. Continue reading
Posted in Gluten Free Dishes, Grains, Vegetarian Main Dish
Tagged Cabbage, Eggs, Garlic, Peas, Quick and Easy, Rice, Vegetarian
Calling all avocado fans!! If you’re like me, you buy avocados in the bag to the get the best deal. This also means, that you have a lot of avocado to use. This cilantro avocado pesto pasta recipe is so good, I ate it everyday last week to use up my bag of buttery avocado fruits!
In addition to avocados, I have totally fallen in love with chickpea pasta. You could use any pasta in this recipe, but using chickpea pasta gives you a boost of protein, as well as fiber. Two essentials that you need in your diet, that usually wouldn’t be high in a basic pasta dish. Continue reading
Posted in Gluten Free Dishes, Pasta, Quick and Easy, Vegan, Vegetarian Main Dish
Tagged Avocado, Cilantro, Garlic, Noodles, Quick and Easy, Vegan
For me, radish is one of those mysterious vegetable that I don’t use often. I feel like I don’t know how to use it, so I avoid it. Well, simply put, fresh radish is easy and great in salads. I created this radish and corn wheat berry salad as a challenge to myself to turn radish from mysterious to delicious!
As a kid, I picked fresh radish from the garden with my grandfather. I ate them only because I was involved in the process of digging them up. A radish from the store? My childhood self would have said No way! Continue reading
Posted in Grains, Salad, Vegetarian Main Dish
Tagged Cilantro, Feta, Garlic, Radish, Sweet Corn, Vegetarian, Wheat berries
Friends, I seem to have a thing for crazy veggie burgers! I was inspired by a local restaurant to make this pineapple jalapeno teriyaki veggie burger, and it is a treat!
I recently learned something new. Nutritional yeast is high in protein! I have always used it to add flavor to veggie burgers and other vegetarian dishes, but never realized that it was adding 8 grams of protein per tablespoon as well. Continue reading
One of my favorite foods to grill is stuffed mushrooms! This sun-dried tomato and goat cheese stuffed mushrooms recipe originally resulted from using up leftovers from the fridge. It was so good, it became a new favorite recipe!
Stuffed mushrooms are one of those meals that have endless possibilities. You could put almost anything into a mushroom and it would be delicious. This also means that they are great for clearing out the fridge! Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Gluten Free Dishes, Grains, Vegetarian Main Dish
Tagged Cheese, Garlic, Herbs, Mushrooms, Rice, Tomatoes, Vegetarian
